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BIOGRAPHY REFERENCES

MIAKO KLEIN is a recorder player and violinist. Her musical abilities and interests are greatly varied and she enjoys presenting innovative concert programs both as a soloist and with her musical partners. These often include new compositions, interdisciplinary performances (such as dance, movement and visual arts) or improvisations. Many composers have written works for Miako and for her ensembles.

Miako was a guest of Ensemble Modern in 2011 as well as musican at Cirque du Soleil ("ZAiA") and regularly performs with trumpet player Sava Stoianov, QNG - Quartet New Generation and trio Lizart.

She was a member of the Amsterdam Renaissance recorder Consort “The Royal Wind Music”, the ensemble “Via Artis” for Medieval music, and founding member of the Espiga string quartet. She has also performed at the Early Music Festival Barcelona, the Fringe Festival Utrecht, Boulevard Festival s’Hertogenbosch, Suite-Muziekweek Amsterdam and Klangwerktage Hamburg. Miako's live-recordings have been broadcast on German radio stations including HR/DLF, WDR3 and Concertzender.

At young age Miako won prizes in numerous competitions including first prize at the “International Recorder Competition of Engelskirchen” and the “SONBU” International Recorder Competition of Utrecht/NL. She was awarded first prize at Germany’s National Youth Competition, “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert”, on multiple occasions. Miako also won the “Prize of the City Erlangen for the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music”, the special award for outstanding ensemble performance by “Stadtsparkasse Köln”, and the IRINO-Foundation Tokyo award for contemporary music.

The daughter of a classical pianist, Miako received her first musical lessons as a young child. At the Westfalian music school she was then taught the recorder by Gudula Rosa and the violin by Tor-Song Tan. Miako studied the recorder with Paul Leenhouts at the Amsterdam Conservatory, graduating with distinction. She also studied the violin with Lex Korff de Gidts and completed her education with the Master of Music. Miako received additional private recorder lessons from Winfried Michel and Walter van Hauwe, and violin lessons from Martin Dehning and Vesselin Paraschkevov. She undertook chamber music lessons at the Dutch String Quartet Academy and participated with the Espiga Quartet in masterclasses conducted by Eberhard Feltz (Berlin), Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartett), Stefan Metz (Amsterdam) and the Auryn-Quartett.

Miako has recently started to learn Jazz-violin and takes lessons from Ulli Bartel in Berlin.

Ensemble Modern.

Cirque du Soleil.

Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne.

Quartet New Generation.

The Royal Wind Music.

IRINO Foundation Tokyo.

Klangwerktage Hamburg.

Festival Aix-en-Provence.

Early Music Festival Barcelona.

Boulevard Festival s’Hertogenbosch.

SUITE Muziekweek+Werkplaats Amsterdam.

Nakagawa CANAL ART Nagoya.

\\ MEDIA:

arte

WDR 3

Hessischer Rundfunk

Deutschlandfunk

\\ AWARDS:

five times 1st prize at Germany’s National Youth competition “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert”,

1st prize at SONBU international competition,

1st prize at international recorder competition Engelskirchen,

Award IRINO foundation Tokyo

Award Stadtsparkasse Köln

Award Zonta’s Club Münster

\\ EDUCATIONAL:

Conservatorium van Amsterdam,

NSKA Dutch String Quartet Academy,

Festival Musique Alpes,

IYAP Festival Antwerp,

European Masterclasses Montepulciano,

chamber music classes Schloss Krickenbeck,

Landesjugendorchester NRW

Paul Leenhouts (Amsterdam)

Walter van der Hauwe (Amsterdam)

Frans Bruggen

Lex Korff de Gidts (Amsterdam)

Vesselin Paraschkevov (Essen)

Martin Dehning (Nomos Quartett)

Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartet)

Auryn-Quartet

Eberhardt Feltz (Berlin)

Kees Boeke

Jill Feldmann

PROJECTS

Duo SAVA MIAKO

duo sava 2

SYnecdochism

Miyo

TRIO LIZART

Duo SAVA MIAKO

C. Imai - Osmosis Phoneme.mp3

DUO SAVA & MIAKO trumpet & recorder

C. Imai - Osmosis Phoneme

"The instrumental virtuosity of Miako Klein and Sava Stoianov is always carried by the delicate

expression of their musical dialogue. Brilliance of sound, range and variety of dynamics and

articulation, as well as gestural richness, are not means of narcissistic self-reflection, but repeatedly questioned by the high musical intelligence of these interpreters. The feast of material explorations of this unusual duo-combination presentsan intensity of musical ideas which I again and again follow in delighted astonishment".

Hanspeter Kyburz

ABOUT The DUO

[...the journey between contrast and unity...]

Miako Klein and Sava Stoianov began working as a duo in Frankfurt in 2006 when Miako performed with Ensemble Modern during the 8th “Nachwuchsforum”.

The fascinating combination of such contrasting instruments as recorder and trumpet has led to an intense collaboration between both musicians and numerous internationally recognized composers.

They like to expand their repertoire for this rare combination and motivate young composeres to explore this new territory and create new works.

In August 2007 the duo premiered Chikage Imai’s composition “Osmosis Phoneme”, the first original work ever written for this combination, which was then recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk and published on the CD "Ljulka" (Ensemble modern Edition).

Both musicians present programmes combining works written for the duo and solo works. They performed at the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Amsterdam during the Suite-Festival, Festival

“Klangwerktage 2008” in Hamburg, the series ZWEI. by Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (FGNM) and at CANAL ART Festival in Nagoya (Japan).

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duo sava 2

DUO SAVA & MIAKO trumpet & recorder

ABOUT Sava Stoianov

The trumpeter, Sava Stoianov, born 1976, has been a member of the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt since 2002 and an associate since 2003. With this ensemble he has performed worldwide at many important festivals and venues. He frequently collaborates with renowned composers and conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, Mauricio Kagel, Peter Eötvös and Wolfgang Rihm. His musical language is also shaped by regular close contact and exchange with young composers.

As a soloist, as well as together with his chamber music partners –Miako Klein (recorder), Jonathan Williams (French horn), Valeri Pachov (trombone), Rita Balta (soprano) and composer Vykintas Baltakas – he presents varied and innovative programmes, usually containing new works especially written for the instrumental combination, as well as free improvisations.

With Georgi Andreev, composer and artistic director of the National Folk music ensemble “Philip Koutev” and some of its members, Sava dedicates himself to the authentic performance of traditional Bulgarian music in which he also plays the cornetto.

In order to support his many-sided musical activities, he aids in the further development of the trumpet at the leading trumpet makers, the brothers Thein.

Sava received his first trumpet lessons in his hometown Dobritsch from Ivan Babev. At the age of 14 he continued his trumpet studies at the music school in Varna with Ivan Iliev. He later studied at the music academy in Sofia, where he gained his diploma on 1999. In the same year, he moved to Germany in order to study with Prof. Uwe Komischke in Weimar. In 2000 he began studying with Prof. Matthias Höfs in Hamburg and received his diploma in 2004. Masterclasses with Edward H. Tarr, Jean-Bernard Beauchamp and Pierre Thibaud completed his studies. During his student years, he was already engaged as first solo trumpet of the Bulgarian National Philharmonic in Sofia.

REPERTOIRE

Written for the duo:

Chikage Imai: Osmosis Phoneme (2007)

For trumpet and recorder

Chikage Imai: Synecdochism

(2008)

For trumpet and recorder,

Intermedial work for music, stage design and video performance

Seiko Itoh: Dimensions of Dialogue (2008)

For two instruments

Paul Leenhouts: Susquehannock Omaxsapitau

(2008)

for soprando recorder and

flugelhorn

Aspasia Nasoupoulou and

Jesse Broekman: The Cloths of Heaven (2010)

for recorders, trumpet and live-electronics

Herbert Grassl: Spielräume

(2011)

arranged for flügelhorn and bass recorder

CD "Ljulka" - Ensemble Modern Portait: Sava Stoianov

contains Osmosis Phoneme

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SYnecdochism

The composer:

"My intention of this work is to create an imaginary dimension. In order to approach this aim, I firstly consider the mechanism of human perception: how all human senses influence each other and how they are connected - as when you hear a sound - how much time you need to recognize and determine it.

SYNECDOCHISM I. <Impulse> (2008)

-Karatedo-kara performance (film), stage design and music

In here I explore how an impact affects the brain psychologically, which then reacts inside the human body physically - for example your mental affect on how to breathe vice versa. The Karatedo-kata performance on the video gives very strong impacts and they will be imprinted in your mind. I composed the music to sustain the feelings and impressions from the impacts with referring to the relation between the mental and breathing. I believe through this sustention the audience will be involved into the piece naturally and their imagination will be broadened, as if they are experiencing the time during the piece going. The visual appreciation by the stage design encourages the concentration of the audience. The design is transformed gradually by lighting and gives contrasts in the piece.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

II. <Intensity> (new work) (temporary subtitle for now)

-Noh performance, stage design and music

This movement also approaches to human perception. Through the intensity carried through the Noh performance, the space created by music and stage design produces a completely different world than <impulse>. <Impulse> is based on the idea that the time flow is shrunk and stretched, whereas <intensity> tries to keep audience’s concentration through continuity conveyed from the special time flow of Noh performance. The music emphasizes and amplifies the flow and the stage design gives contrasts."

SYNECDOCHISM

Intermedial work with Karatedo-Kate performance (video), stage design and music.

Chikage Imai, composition

Masako Ito, stage design

Shin Narita, Karatedo-Kata

Sava Stoianov, trumpet

Miako Klein, recorder

Mako Nezaki and Martin Boverhof, techniques and video design

Miyo

MiYo!

YOSHIKO KLEIN - PIANO, RECORDER

MIAKO KLEIN - VIOLIN, RECORDER

cutting edges: music between early and contemporary, composition and improvisation, acoustic and electronic, beautiful and grotesque...

telling stories of our lives

Sound clips coming up...

We are recording and I am happy to present you more about the work of my wonderful sister and me soon!

TRIO LIZART

Trio Lizart plays with the idea to find new standards of ensemble perfomance and to discover new territories of sounds and repertoire on their way.

Through versatility by the use of their different instruments, and by creating and reinventing new repertoire, the three musicians expand the borders of a common recorder trio.

Communication and performance are means to tell their stories.

All three performers have gained high reputation as soloists and chamber musicians on international stages and were awarded on several competitions.

trio Lizart

Anna Stegmann - recorders

Yoshiko Klein - recorders / toy piano

Miako Klein - recorders / violin

fancy compagnye

A Fancy Compagnye . Renaissance Recorder Quintet

Galliard Sir John Souch.mp3

Paradizo.mp3

Amy Power,

Andreas Böhlen,

Eva Gemeinhardt,

Caroline Mayrhofer,

Miako Klein

Founded in 2011 by international musicians, former students of the Amsterdam Conservatory, this ensemble currently performs “The Queen’s humours...” - Consort Music of the English Renaissance.

"THE QUEEN'S HUMOURS..."

- music by Dowland, Byrd, Holborne, Tye, Wilbye Tomkins and others

SHOWS

UPCOMING

24.1.2012 15:00h QNG Concert for Children

Ultraschall-Festival,

Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin (DE)

24.1.2012 20:00h QNG

Ultraschall-Festival,

Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin (DE)

25.2.2012 22:00h QNG

Festival Recorder 2.0,

St Michaelis Church, Hildesheim (DE)

26.2.2012 18:00h Violin Improvisation and own works

Erlöserkirche, Münster (DE)

6.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Gennevilliers (FR)

7.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Gennevilliers (FR)

9.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Gennevilliers (FR)

10.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Gennevilliers (FR)

12.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Gennevilliers (FR

16.3.2012 20:30h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR)

25.3.2012 tba QNG

tba, Neuruppin (DE)

3.4.2012 20:15h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (BE)

5.4.2012 20:15h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (BE)

6.4.2012 20:15h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (BE)

10.4.2012 20:15h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (BE)

12.4.2012 20:15h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels (BE)

18.4.2012 QNG

MATA-Festival, New York City (USA)

21.4.2012 17:00h QNG & CALMUS Vocal Ensemble

St Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee WI (USA)

25.4.2012 20:00h QNG & CALMUS

Virginia Arts Festival

Trinity Episcopal Church, Portsmouth VA (USA)

27.4.2012 19:30h QNG

Trinity Church, Peoria IL (USA)

18.5.2012 21:30h OrqestrUtopica

Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon (PT) O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

20.5.2012 21:30h OrqestrUtopica

Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon (PT) O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

7.6.2012 20:00h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Teatro de Zarzuela, Madrid (ES)

8.6.2012 20:00h O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes”

Teatro de Zarzuela, Madrid (ES)

29.6.2012 tba A Fancy Compagnye: The Queen's Humours

Ansitz Widegg, Forum Musik,

Kaltern (AU)

29.7.2012 tba A Fancy Compagnye: The Queen's Humours

St. Ursula, Steinach a. Brenner (AU)

22.8.2012 13:00 h A Fancy Compagnye: The Queen's Humours

tba, Innsbruck (AU)

31.8.2012 tba Violin Improvisation and own works

St. Johannis, Nieblum/ Föhr (DE) & Trio Lizart

28.09.2012 tba Ensemble Modern

Festival Musica, Mulhouse (FR) O. Bianchi: "Thanks to my Eyes"

30.10.2012 20:30h QNG

Unerhörte Musik, BKA, Berlin (DE)

2.11.2012 tba A Fancy Compagnye

tba, Achenkirch (AU)

7.12.2012 tba A Fancy Compagnye: O Rosa Mystica

tba, Achenkirch (AU)

8.12.2012 tba A Fancy Compagnye: O Rosa Mystica

Pauluskonzerte, Innsbruck (AU)

14.12.2012 tba QNG

Bruckhnerhaus, Linz (AU) "Fliehender Atem; oder: de Kunst der Fuge"

MISSED

5.7.2011 20:00h Ensemble Modern/Frank Ollu Theatre du Jeu de Paume,

O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes” Aix-en-Provence Festival (FR)

6.7.2011 18:00h Ensemble Modern/Frank Ollu Theatre du Jeu de Paume,

O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes” Aix-en-Provence Festival (FR)

8.7.2011 18:00h Ensemble Modern/Frank Ollu Theatre du Jeu de Paume,

O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes” Aix-en-Provence Festival (FR)

9.7.2011 20:00h Ensemble Modern/Frank Ollu Theatre du Jeu de Paume,

O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes” Aix-en-Provence Festival (FR)

11.7.2011 18:00h Ensemble Modern/Frank Ollu Theatre du Jeu de Paume,

O.Bianchi: “Thanks to my Eyes” Aix-en-Provence Festival (FR)

10.8.2011 21:00h A Fancy Compagnye St. Peter, Villnös (AUS)

“The Queen’s humours...”

11.8.2011 21:00h A Fancy Compagnye Siffian am Ritten/Südtirol (IT)

“The Queen’s humours...”

12.8.2011 21:00h A Fancy Compagnye Seefelder Kultursommer, (AUS)

“The Queen’s humours...”

14.8.2011 A Fancy Compagnye Klangdom/Dom, Brixen (IT)

“The Queen’s humours...”

17.8.2011 21:00h A Fancy Compagnye Schloss, Rodenegg / Südtirol (IT)

“The Queen’s humours...”

3.9.2011 16:15h trio aXolot ERPS-Biennale, Zürich (CH)

“Grenzklänge”

16.9.2011 20:00h A Fancy Compagnye St. Johannis, Nieblum/Föhr (DE)

“The Queen’s humours...”

17.9.2011 19:30h A Fancy Compagnye Neustadt/Hartz (DE)

“The Queen’s humours...”

24.9.2011 20:00h Quartet New Generation Bundesakademie, Trossingen

“Fantasie in Symmetrie”

28.9.2011 20:00h QNG MitOst-Festival,

"Fantasie in Symmetrie" CeskeBudejovice (CZ)

5.10.2011 17:00h DUO SAVA & MIAKO Aichi University of Fine Arts

Nagoya, JP

7.10.2011 17:00h DUO SAVA & MIAKO Art Lab Aichi, B1 event space,

Cross Talk and Music Nagoya (JP)

9.10.2011 18:30h DUO SAVA & MIAKO The 3rd stage of OKAYA,

Nagoya (JP)

12.10.2011 15:00h DUO SAVA & MIAKO Dounji, Shirakawa-cho, Gifu (JP)

12.11.2011 20:00h trio aXolot Kulturzentrum, Karlsruhe (DE)

“Round of Talks”

24.11.2011 19:00h QNG (Not Public)

Mendelssohn-Remise, Berlin (DE)

11.12.2011 19:00h QNG "In Deep Silence"

Friedrich-Listz-Halle, Reutlingen (DE)

AUDIO/VIDEO

AUDIO - live and demo recordings

BEZEL by Mario Garuti

KAGE by Roderik de Man

Cirque du Soleil - ZAiA

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Espiga Quartet playing Beethoven

Beethoven op 18,4

EARLY MUSIC

1. Holborne - Paradizo

2. Dowland - Galliard

Paradizo.mp3

Galliard Sir John Souch.mp3

VIDEO play list:

BEZEL by Mario Garuti

KAGE by Roderik de Man

Cirque du Soleil - ZAiA

CONTEMPORARY RECORDER MUSIC

1. Emanele Casale - Studio N 2a

2. Chikage Imai - Osmosis Phoneme

Casale_ Studio n2a

osmosis phoneme.mp3

Contact

Miako Klein

Waldemarstr 68

10997 Berlin

GERMANY

fon +49.30.20238541

miako.klein_gmail.com

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Miako CV

english BIOGRAPHY.pdf

A Fancy Compagnye promotion folder DEUTSCH

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deutsche Biografie.pdf

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